Podcast 532: Maura Sweeney: Spreading Happiness Across The World

Join Up Dots - Business Coaching Made Easy (With A Bit Of Life Coaching Too)

David Ralph of Join Up Dots

Interview, Motivation, Online, Businessinterview, Education, Businesscoaching, Entrepreneur, Lifestyle, Income, Business

5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2016

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Todays guest entrepreneur joining us on the Steve Jobs inspired podcast is a lady with a connection to a previous episode. If you go back and listen to episode 473 of Join Up Dots you will hear an open and frank discussion with Jim Sweeney. During the recording he spoke passionately about his amazing wife and the work she was doing, so its with delight that we now have her on the show. So lets give you a bit of background formation about her, and what she is doing on life. From the early part of her career she was in the words of one of her friend “Groomed” for success. She was setting out on a path towards being a lawyers As she says “The master plan (which certainly sounds good on its surface) would entail my following in my late grandfather’s footsteps to become a New Jersey lawyer. For a girl born in the late ’50s, it was somewhat ambitious and even professionally affirming. There were just two problems: 1) I didn’t want to practice law and 2) I didn’t want to live in New Jersey. Though I could have easily articulated the second (negative) goal, the first negative goal was a bit more complex. Why didn’t I want to practice law? Simply put, I had neither passion nor vision for the profession. When laid against my inward leanings, it translated to me as a solitary, rigid and uninspired career. Despite trying to please those around me and stay true to the instruction manual that would get me to this supposed life goal as a New Jersey lawyer, I became increasingly dis-spirited. The more I moved through the law school process the more “dead” I felt.” And haven’t most of us felt that at one time or another, simply going through the motions. Waiting for each weekend to free us up from the life we are living? Well today’s guest has done just that and now calls herself the Ambassador of Happiness, on a mission to help ignite the worlds on personal happiness. She has books, podcasts, courses and the worlds biggest smile to share everywhere? So does she think that she could have gone through the Law degree and found some kind of happiness in the role, or did she need to do a 360. And where is her greatest source of happiness now she is surrounded by it? Well lets find out as we bring onto the show to start joining up dots with the one and only super happiness entrepreneur Maura Sweeney

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0:00.0	When we're young we have an amazing positive outlook about how great life is going to be
0:05.1	but somewhere along the line we forget to dream and end up settling. Join up dots
0:09.9	features amazing people who refuse to give up and chose to go after their dreams.
0:15.2	This is your blueprint for greatness. So here's your host, live from the back of his
0:20.6	garden in the UK, David Ralph.
0:22.8	Ha ha ha! Yes, it's David Ralph coming from the United Kingdom. I tell you what, what
0:31.7	a week I've had, one a week you don't want to go
0:33.6	into my issues. No don't go into my issues at all but it's been a bit problematic so
0:37.6	just the fact that I'm doing this today it inspires me. This is like a weight off my shoulders and as long as when I say hello how are you the person is at the other end we're good to go. So hopefully we're going to get a show out today because this is one that I've been looking forward to because if you go back and listen to
0:54.1	episode 473 of join up dots you're here an open and frank discussion with a
0:58.7	gentleman called Jim Sweeney and now during the recording he spoke passionately about his
1:03.0	amazing wife and the work she was doing so that is with the light that we now
1:06.3	have her on the show so let's give you a bit of background information about her
1:10.0	and what she's actually doing in life from the early early part of her career, she was in the words of one of her friends groomed for success.
1:17.0	She was setting out on a path towards being a lawyer.
1:19.0	And as she says, the master plan, which certainly sounds good on its surface would entail my following
1:24.8	in my late grandfather's footsteps to become a New Jersey lawyer.
1:28.2	For a girl born in the late 50s it was somewhat ambitious and even professionally affirming.
1:33.3	Now there was just two problems.
1:34.9	Number one, I didn't want to practice law and number two,
1:38.1	I didn't want to live in New Jersey.
1:40.5	So, though I could have easily articulated the second negative girl, the first negative girl was a bit more complex.
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